A guy I was dating at the time would go to instances while I sat and read on his floor, having driven several hours to go visit him. Didn’t make the best impression. A year or so after I started playing, when I started raiding Zul’Gurub and Molten Core, I’d been on one half-completed Sunken Temple run and one half-completed Blackrock Depths run. (When I rolled Annalira was the first time I’d ever been to Deadmines, or any other instance – and I leveled her almost exclusively through healing!)

Over the weekend I was thinking about my son. On the rare occasions I play while he is awake, he is either in the lounge playing/watching Wiggles videos, or at my feet (or worst case, on my lap pressing buttons and demanding the mouse at the worst possible moments).

My wife is usually watching the latest murder mystery send from the BBC to Australia while I play. For a while, when i had a work supplied notebook, we would cuddle up on the couch, her watching TV, me killing Murlocs.

That came to an end when voice comms became important, and my mates didn’t need the background noise coming from my wife, and I didn’t need my wife answering the questions I was asking my mates over Vent. I also changed jobs and lost the notebook.

Very rarely she shows some interst in playing, but that opens a whole can of worms. We would need an extra PC, copy of the game, subscription and of course a Nanny to look after our son. So we don’t think it is really worth it.

So do you play next to a WoW Window/Widower/Orphan or are you surrounded by household alts?

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She’s worked out that by sitting on my CRT ( I have duel monitors and my 2nd is a CRT, I will pay attention to her. If that fails she trys to jump on the hardrive over both the monitors to disasterous effect on the Speakers.

Oh I’ve got the pc standing in the middle of the living room. (Living in a small place, got no alternative.)

And I’m surrounded by my wow-hating family, often watching tv in the background. Push-to-talk is really quite necessary to spare my raid mates the sound from the tv and above all their wow-hating commentaries… :(

Often I play late though, when everybody else is gone to bed. For obvious resons. Playing on your own is really a blessing. A luxuary.

I didn’t get into the game until I got divorced … I had heard about i prior to that, but knew that I would get hooked and so I avoided it … I got divorced … and re-married it would appear. My room mate also plays, although she plays a lot less than I do.

People say play in moderation, but to me it’s kinda like telling the boss no when the entire project will fail without you … it’s hard … these people count on you to be there night after night, and many times won’t progress, or at least progress as well without you.

A little over 2 years ago I got my wife to sit down and start. She got hooked and would call me up at work for quest help :). After she had our first son she lost the time to play and then got back in a short while before having our second son. Again, playing WOW and having an active baby and toddler in the house doesn’t work very well.

My first son sits on my lap sometimes and too grabs the mouse at bad times. When he was very young he managed to wipe a Karazan…..and yes I did blame it on him over vent :)

I’m taking advantage of the trend for young adults to remain at home for a couple of years to save up money, so I’m handling the parental units and three siblings when I play. They usually leave me alone, but all four of the kids in the clan are or have been players (including the youngest, who is a member of prestigious competitive end-game raiding guild SECURITY from Arthas US). But that changes in two weeks when I move into a house with the significant other, who also plays World of Warcraft!

Also, I wrassle with my ferrets a lot when I play. I have two monsters — Gyõzõ and László (“the Bear”) — and they’re usually pretty good. Except Gyõzõ has a bad habit of biting mommy’s toes when I’m playing because he wants attention and the Bear thinks that mommy’s pants are the best place to hide in. More than one raid has broken up into gales of laughter as I started talking on Vent only to squeal when one of the two do something.

I usually play at night time when my GF is sleeping behind me. She doesnt like the game and usually gets pissed if I play while she is awake (unless she is reading a book or something). Also, I do wake her up from time to time yelling at Arena. I got her to play a bit, but we only have my account and if she gets serious into it she will need her own PC and her own account.